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FORSSMANN, Werner Theodor Otto (1904 – 1979)

FORSSMANN, Werner Theodor Otto (1904 – 1979)

1904 – 1979

2 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1929 CE

#2858

Die Sondierung des rechten Herzens.

The first cardiac catheterization on a living person. Forssmann catheterized his own heart. Historical note by N. Howard-Jones, Bull. Hist. Med.,1973, 47,524-6. English translation in Callahan, Keys & Key, Classics of…

1972 CE

#12233

Selbstversuch. Erinnerungen eines Chirurgen.

Translated into English by Hilary Davies as Experiments on myself. Memoirs of a surgeon in Germany (London: St. Martin's Press, 1974).